Chapter 32: Escape from the predicament and that place is the center of the secret realm.
"Oh, she didn't move just now. She must be thinking of a solution."
"It's not difficult to think of using spiritual fire. However, this is the first time we've faced this kind of situation, so it's not easy to think of it so quickly."
"Whether he was thinking of a solution or not, Mu Fuyun didn't put in any effort. From beginning to end, he only started a cluster of fire. Compared to others who were fighting with real swords and guns, he was just trying to please others."
"If nothing else, do you think that Mu Fuyun's flame seems more stable than others?"
"What? I didn't notice it."
In the trial field, the disciples were talking at once, while several elders remained silent.
They were all at the level of Transformation of the Spirit and Refining of the Void or above, and had seen countless people. How could they not see that the small flame that Mu Fuyun had just created was indeed very well-made.
The flame burns evenly, the color is stable, and it is not affected by the movement of the sword tip.
In contrast, the flames of others flickered, and some almost went out halfway.
It is not difficult to ignite spiritual fire with spiritual power. Even cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining can do it. However, if you want to control the flame to be just right and stable, you need to be able to accurately control every bit of spiritual power.
Regardless of whether he had practiced deliberately or not, in this regard, Mu Fuyun was indeed slightly better than the others.
However, since the master is here, it is better to remain silent about some things.
After all, Mu Fuyun is the sister of the master's beloved disciple, and the master himself once said that she is not suitable for cultivation. Praising her at this time would only make the master unhappy.
Only Jiang Hanqiu was fearless and said, "This spiritual fire looks a bit like that of a weapon cultivator."
In the rainforest, a group of nine people jumped out of the tree hole and continued to run wildly among the trees and grass in a panic.
Even though the huge vines behind them were broken, they could still transform into snakes and chase after them relentlessly. The small vine snakes hanging between the branches at the treetops kept spreading their transparent thin wings and pounced towards them.
"What should I do! I can't do it anymore!"
Xiao Yan had completely abandoned his image. He ran wildly with disheveled hair, slashing with his sword as he went. His face and body were already covered with stains.
"Let's keep running forward and try to get rid of them!" Cen Luo suggested loudly.
"That makes sense!" Qi Man agreed loudly.
Zhan Yao frowned: "Are you sure you can escape?"
She was also running at full speed, her long hair and robes fluttering in the wind. Wherever her sword went, it was able to avoid most of the flying stains. Because of her light body and agile steps, she did not look embarrassed at all, but rather had a sense of ease and grace.
Even Mu Fuyun couldn't help but admire her when he looked at her back.
"Zhan Yao, what do you mean by that?" Hong Ying asked with all his attention. He was almost tripped by a vine that grew out from the side. Mu Fuyun, who was beside him, pulled him up without a word, and he was able to stand firmly.
She turned around and subconsciously wanted to say thank you, but when she saw Mu Fuyun's face, she was suddenly speechless.
We are still in danger and cannot be distracted at all. If we miss this moment, this thank you will be gone naturally.
The others didn't care about this little thing, they just pricked up their ears and waited for Zhan Yao's answer.
"The rainforest we are in is encircled by a fog."
"What?!"
"Could it be... the fog just now?"
It is called the Fog Array because it requires fog as an inducement to activate this array. It is often used in places such as deep forests and mountains where fog can be easily overlooked.
Once you enter the formation, you will be trapped and unable to get out unless you find the center of the formation.
"No wonder we've been running for so long, but it feels like we're just going in circles, like we're stuck in a maze!"
"Then we have to deal with these vine snakes first. Once the surroundings are clear, we can find the center of the formation and escape."
"Since it's a vine, it should have roots, right? If we find the roots, can we solve the problem?"
"But where is the root?"
Xu Huaiyan said, "I think we should keep an eye on the surroundings while we run. Maybe we can find some clues."
Just as he finished speaking, Cen Luo, who was running at the edge, was accidentally tripped by a vine that suddenly emerged from the soil. He just touched the ground with his sword to support his whole body and was about to fall forward, but before he could cut it, the vine had already climbed up quickly and entangled his feet.
"Wait!"
Qi Man, who was closest to him, shouted, swung his sword hard, cut the vines for him, and then pulled him back.
"This isn't a solution. We have to find the roots of these vines!"
Mu Fuyun's eyes darkened. As she swung her sword one after another, she could feel that the spiritual power in her body was already losing signs of accelerating. She had to get rid of these vine snakes before that.
"I think I should know where the roots of these vines are."
Thinking about what she saw when she first came in, although she didn't have the chance to confirm it herself, she still gritted her teeth and said it.
"Right where we saw the first snake."
Just as he finished speaking, a disdainful sneer came from the front, which could not be drowned out even by the chaotic noise around him.
It was Xu Lian: "We don't know, how do you know?"
Xu Huaiyan drew back his thoughts and retorted, "What Junior Sister Mu said just now about the whistle snake and the spirit fire was both correct."
Xu Lian's face was filled with impatience. "So what? Who knows if I was lucky and guessed right? Even if I guessed right this time, we're already lost. How can we find the place she mentioned?"
Xu Huaiyan was speechless, so he had to chop twice with his sword even harder, and also helped Mu Fuyun chop twice.
Mu Fuyun didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she felt that Hongying seemed to be moving closer to her.
"I used a tracking charm," she said simply, waiting for their decision.
The tracking talisman was given to everyone by Instructor Wu before entering the secret realm. It was for everyone to use in case of emergencies. No one else has used it yet.
"When did you use it? How come we didn't know about it?" Zhou Su frowned and questioned, obviously not believing what she said.
Even the people in the trial field were shocked.
"Yeah, I didn't see when she used it!"
"I didn't notice either!"
“I didn’t notice anything at all!”
Zhan Yao hesitated for only a moment before making a quick decision: "Whether it's true or not, we have to go and see it to confirm."
As he spoke, he cut off a thick vine with great force, glanced at several people, and began to command: "Xu Huaiyan, follow me. If you really find it, you will attack with me later. The others will follow the original formation. Mu Fuyun——"
Her gaze finally fell on Mu Fuyun.
"——You lead the way, don't waste time."
"Zhan Yao is indeed number one. She either doesn't speak, or when she does, she always hits the nail on the head and maintains her momentum."
"Disciples like this aren't produced every year in the outer sect class."
In the trial field, everyone was amazed at Zhan Yao's decisiveness.
Under the guidance of Mu Fuyun, the nine people in the secret realm fought their way back and finally found their previous place.
The vines had destroyed the place so completely that it was no longer recognizable.
Xiao Yan's arms were numb from chopping. "Where is it? I don't see anything!"
Mu Fuyun followed the guidance of the tracking talisman, pointed to an inconspicuous tree, and said, "It's right here, it should be underground next to this tree."
"Don't take us for fools, do you?" Xu Lian looked around and felt that it was impossible.
"When Zhan Yao killed the whistle snake earlier, I saw the snake's blood spilled here, but it was quickly sucked away, leaving no trace at all."
After Mu Fuyun explained the reason why he was paying attention to this place, he let them decide for themselves.
Zhan Yao and Xu Huaiyan did not hesitate. They immediately used powerful sword intent to split the moist soil on the ground and followed the intertwined tree roots to search for the roots of the vines.
The others continued to clear the nearby flying snakes and vines, protecting them in the middle so that they would not be disturbed.
Mu Fuyun thought about it and finally lit a flame, which ignited and burned the roots of the tree.
At first, they searched for a while but found no clues. But soon, Hongying found a clue when he looked back inadvertently.
"Look!"
I saw the red blood and emerald green juice spilled on the ground, slowly seeping into the soft mud. But there was one place where, if you looked closely, you would find that the blood and juice disappeared very quickly, and were almost completely absorbed as soon as they landed on it.
There seemed to be something underneath, greedily absorbing it. Not only that, the area, about half a meter square, seemed to be slowly moving.
"Here it is!"
Zhan Yao shouted and immediately raised his sword to chop down.
The thing felt threatened and suddenly sped up, barely avoiding her sword.
Soon, Xu Huaiyan joined in, and the two of them tried to stab the fleeing creature in the small circle formed by the crowd.
Seeing that the thing was about to move out of their encirclement, Mu Fuyun cut off a long root of a tree, set it on fire, and quickly inserted it into the mud in the direction where the thing was moving.
It hit a wall, a wall with spiritual fire, and the thing seemed to be frightened and retreated suddenly.
At this moment, Zhan Yao was quick-eyed and quick-handed. She touched the ground with her toes, jumped up first, then swooped down, and plunged the sword deep into the mud, stabbing the thing.
A thick, dark green liquid gushed out from around the sword, emitting a strong smell of rotting grass and trees.
Xu Huaiyan quickly dug away the wet mud, revealing what was underneath.
It was a root composed of countless long and twisted roots, which were pierced by Zhan Yao's sword and were gushing out juice.
The roots on both sides of the sword tip seemed to be afraid of light, and they were struggling frantically like countless tentacles.
Zhan Yao twisted the hilt of the sword hard, trying to pull the roots out of the mud, but the roots were too long and no matter how hard she pulled, she couldn't see the end.
Perhaps sensing danger, the twisting tentacles continued to extend, climbing up Zhan Yao's arm along the sword, trying to wrap around her.
Xu Huaiyan hurriedly used his sword to cut off the roots, but as soon as the sword touched the roots, it was quickly entangled and wrapped, and he became unable to move.
The others were still trying to drive away the surrounding vine snakes. After their roots were pierced, the vine snakes outside seemed to be stimulated and attacked frantically, leaving no one free to take action.
Only Mu Fuyun was still standing in the circle.
She simply took up the sword and ignited the spiritual fire on the tip of the sword again.
Vines are afraid of fire, so the only way to completely eliminate the roots of these vine snakes is to burn them.
But now, those roots are dense and more and more, entangling Zhan Yao and Xu Huaiyan. At first, it was just the sword body and arms, but soon, it spread to their shoulders and chests. If they use spiritual fire, they will be hurt if they are not careful.
The people on the periphery were so frightened that they were distracted for a moment and were hit by the canes one after another.
Seeing that the circle was getting smaller and smaller and might collapse at any moment, they hurriedly warned: "Hey, be careful! Don't hurt anyone!"
The others in the trial field also stared at the flame nervously.
"Can she do it?"
"If you hurt someone, you'll end up making things worse."
In the picture, Mu Fuyun was calm and composed. He walked up to Zhan Yao and Xu Huaiyan and said, "Don't move. Trust me."
Xu Huaiyan had a natural trust in her. As for Zhan Yao, she was never afraid. Even when the roots had entangled half of her body, she still tried to hold her head high.
"Stop talking nonsense and get started."
Seeing that she was not afraid at all, Mu Fuyun quickly pulled the corner of his mouth, raised his hand steadily, added a few percent of spiritual power to the palm of his hand to make the flame burn more fiercely, and then sent it towards the two of them.
The others involuntarily stopped what they were doing, turned their heads and stared closely at her movements, not even caring about being pulled to the ground by the vines.
As the raging fire approached, the roots shrank back in fear, but before they could escape, they were ignited and twisted painfully on the two of them, becoming thinner and thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye, until they finally broke off, turned into ashes, and disappeared into the air.
There was a sound like breaking strings all around, one after another, continuously.
The spiritual fire burned fiercely and was very close, but it did not burn the two of them at all.
"Junior Sister Mu, thank you so much!" As soon as Xu Huaiyan was free, he thanked her first, and then joined her to burn the roots with spiritual fire.
Zhan Yao stared at her carefully with an unfathomable look.
As the roots burned rapidly, the surrounding vine snakes seemed to have lost their backbone. Their speed gradually slowed down, and the characteristics that originally belonged to the snakes disappeared bit by bit, turning back into the appearance of tree vines until they loosened up and lay motionless on the ground.
Everyone was liberated.
The speed of spiritual power loss accelerated again. Seeing that the roots were almost burned, only some short stumps were left in the mud, which could not make any waves. Mu Fuyun quickly put away the spiritual fire, sat down on the spot, and tried hard to regulate his luck and breathing, trying to retain the last spiritual power in his dantian.
She hadn't reached the end yet, and she couldn't just sit back and watch her Qi sea dry up.
In the trial field, everyone was still relieved that Class A had temporarily escaped the disaster, while the elders were very calm. In their opinion, the trials of these outer disciples were just minor fights after all.
Only Song Xinghe quietly clenched his hands hanging at his sides.
She looks like this...could it be that she can no longer hold on?
Even Xie Hanyi, who was in Lingshanze, couldn't help but frown slightly when looking at the scene in the ice mirror.
At this moment, Xiao Yan, who had been holding on all the way, seemed to have no more patience. He sighed and suddenly collapsed as if all his bones had been pulled out.
The sword in his hand danced in the air as he fell, and the tip of the sword just happened to touch the trunk of an ordinary towering tree, making a hissing sound and leaving a long and deep crack.
Xu Lian couldn't help but cover her ears and looked at him with disgust.
"I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." Xiao Yan ignored her and murmured while panting.
The others were also exhausted and sat down to rest for a while.
At this moment, as if some mechanism was triggered, the thin layer of fog around suddenly dissipated.
Then, as if an invisible giant hand wiped away everything around, the trees that blocked out the sun disappeared one by one, revealing the bright autumn sunshine above. The moist land retreated inch by inch, revealing a broad lake like a mirror before our eyes.
"Are we...getting out of the fog?" Xiao Yan asked, staring at the blue sky above his head as he couldn't get up.
"It seems so, but we haven't found the center of the formation yet." Hongying asked in confusion.
"It's the tree just now." Zhan Yao glanced at the sword in Xiao Yan's hand and explained concisely. This was a coincidence.
A small boat that could only accommodate one person was moored by the huge lake, and on the lonely island in the distance, rich spiritual energy was continuously emanating, causing the surrounding water waves to form circles of flowing whirlpools.
No need to ask, everyone has already felt that that is the center of the secret realm, the exit of this final competition, and the place where one can obtain the sword of Lingshan Taoist and become the winner.
As for the small boat on the shore, it was telling them that only one person could get there.
Whoever grabs the boat is the winner.
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